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The water shortage situation in Metro Manila is seen to improve in the next weeks as concessionaire Manila Water reported that it has restored supply to about 80 percent of its customers as of Friday.
This improvement came after it started imposing a rotational water supply scheme on Thursday.
“They already have water in their taps. This translates to over one million households. This can only get better in the coming weeks, in the coming months as we have observed. We implemented this new scheme beginning Thursday afternoon and we’ve been seeing marked improvements,” said Dittie Galang, Manila Water’s communications planning and tactical development manager.
Although the service has been restored in most of Manila Water’s area of coverage, she admitted that the firm has “challenges in some pocket areas of Quezon City and portions of Mandaluyong.”
“But most of those that had no water in the past days in Mandaluyong already have water in their taps,” Galang said, although she qualified that the water pressure customers are receiving may not be as strong as in previous months.
On Friday, Manila Water assured customers that its 20-hour water interruptions would not last throughout summer as it cited the initial positive effects of the rotational water supply scheme.
“Levels of various reservoirs have started to increase
highest since the 15 percent in December 2014, the SWS said.
Meanwhile, the proportion of Filipinos who are “very/ fairly satisfied” with their lives also dropped to 82 percent in December 2018 from the record-high 92 percent in December 2017. This was also the lowest in over four years, since the 79 percent in September 2014.
Dissatisfaction with life at 18 percent in December 2018, also the highest since the 21 percent in September 2014.
The nationwide survey used face-to-face interviews of 1,440 adults, 18 years old and above.
Happiness with life declined in all areas and across all socioeconomic classes, according to the SWS.
In Mindanao, it fell to 89 percent in December 2018 from 96 percent in December 2017.
It also fell in the Visayas from 94 percent to 89 percent.
Happiness with life was at 86 percent in balance Luzon, down from 95 percent previously.
In Metro Manila, it dropped to 82 percent, down from 90 percent previously.
Unhappiness, on the other hand, was highest in Metro Manila at 17 percent, up from 10 percent in December 2017. It was followed by balance Luzon at 14 percent (up from five percent), Visayas at 11 percent (up from six percent), and Mindanao at 11 percent (up from four percent).
Happiness with life fell to 91 percent among class ABC in December 2018 from 93 percent in December 2017.
It also dropped among class D, or the masa, to 88 percent (from 95 percent), and class E, at 79 percent (from 90 percent).
Unhappiness was highest in class E, at 21 percent, (up from 10 percent in December 2017), followed by class D, at 12 percent (from five percent), and class ABC, at nine percent (from seven percent).
Meanwhile, satisfaction with life also declined in all areas and classes.
It dropped from 93 percent to 81 percent in Metro Manila, followed by balance Luzon from 94 percent to 83 percent; and in Mindanao from 91 percent to 80 percent.
In the Visayas, it fell from 89 percent to 83 percent.
Dissatisfaction with life, on the other hand, was highest in Mindanao, at 20 percent (up from nine percent in December 2017), followed by Metro Manila, at 19 percent (from seven percent), the Visayas, at 17 percent (from 11 percent), and balance Luzon, at 17 percent (from six percent).
By class, satisfaction with life dropped to 75 percent among class E from 89 percent; followed by class D at 83 percent from 93 percent.
Dissatisfaction with life was highest in class E, at 25 percent (from 11 percent in December 2017), followed by class D, at 17 percent (from seven percent), and class ABC, which stayed at eight percent.